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Project Controller

Our customer deals with long term projects and programmes. Your role is to keep tight control over the planning and finances. It also means being in regular contact with a variety of suppliers.

Project Controller round

Responsibilities:

  • Support the planning, preparation, execution and follow-up of projects/ programmes activities in terms of schedule, related procurement actions, costs;
  • Support the preparation of long-term, medium term and in-year resource plans;
  • Monitoring and controlling the implementation of the plans in line with resource targets, performing forecasting;
  • Reviewing / checking of ESA internal expenditures;
  • Checking commitments for consistency with budgets and ESA’s procedures;
  • Support to the preparation and follow-up of the Agency’s tender actions and proposal evaluations;
  • Support the maintenance of the industrial return database;
  • Support to the preparation of the financial contract commitment and the data entry of the milestone payment plans in the Agency’s system(s);
  • Creating related objects in ESA-p, maintaining corresponding information in local applications;
  • Monitoring and controlling of timely implementation of actions related to procurement and contractual matters, including monitoring of financial commitments, payment milestones and invoicing;
  • Support industrial invoicing process and payment verification and control.

Skills & Experience:

  • University degree in a relevant field;
  • Experience in controlling and/or management of activities and resources in aerospace industry;
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills;
  • Highly proficient in the use of modern activities and resource management support tools/databases of standard office automation support software packages including in particular advance usage of Excel;
  • Experience as user of SAP and in particular ECC and SRM modules and familiarity with relevant ESA corporate applications (e.g. ESA-p) would be an asset;
  • Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.